Monday, April 12, 2010

Weekender: Be and Tee

This weekend, clementines in a white bowl. Curtains hung to billow, hooks hung to expect. A small castle spied on front steps. Found, a tissue-thin gray tee, sleeves long enough to cover the tops of hands. It is how sleeves should be, how hands look forward to cool summer nights, perhaps before a small blaze. The trees leaf, the petals drop. Oil of clementine. On a blanket and beneath kites, gorgeous poems by a poet gone missing. Poems that made me, as Emily says, "feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off." Poems for now, yes. But also for now and for now and also for now.

10 maids a-milking:

jamie said...

those tissue tees from target, me and my best friend used to be obsessed with them.... so nice and soft. and long.

Rachel said...

mmmmmmmmmm....

that's all.

Celia said...

on a blanket and beneath kites. that is where i want to be.

Amanda said...

Wait. They are CALLED tissue tees? (goes to laundry basket). They are! A genius hath named them, says me.

Lila said...

That is so strange...I was looking for a tee just like what you described today- just I didn't know the name for them- cool, now I do!

Amanda said...

Get thee to Target, Lila! Long-sleeved and tissue thin.

Peonies and Polaroids said...

Booful. Perfect. Lovely.

Cate Subrosa said...

It is nice to have short arms and long sleeves.

east side bride said...

your blog is poems.

Amanda said...

I love you, esb.